vBSEO 2.0 RC4 Released

Hello all.

vBSEO RC4 has now been officially released. I like to refer to RC4 as the "Pre-Release" Release! Why? Well, two reasons really:

(1) Despite the fact that our team of borderline OCD-ish testers have piled up a task list that would give Deepak Chopra an anxiety attack, we managed to implement fixes for all in RC4.

(2) My main partner in crime and lead developer Oleg refused to sleep for 3 days resulting in changes to the vBSEO pre-processing engine that will make vBSEO do its job more efficiently & probably reminded his wife of the days before she had her official cuddle buddy. Oleg - it's ok to sleep now.

Here is a summary of updates included in vBSEO 2.0 RC4:

(1) Full overhaul on the pre-processing engine resulting in:

• minor bug fixes
• significant efficiency/performance improvements in the processing engine for rewriting
• improved flexibility for future enhancements
• reduction of required .htaccess directives

(2) The new pre-processing engine allowed for the integration of the following new features:

(A) Dynamically generated METAS for:

• Member Profiles
• Forum Displays

(B) Rewrite Archive Root - The vB archive root can now be customized to a directory of your choosing such as "/sitemap/", "/archive/", or "/hello/google/".

/* NOTE: Old archive root URLs will be 301 redirected to the new custom formats. Forums with heavily indexed archive URLs may see some changes in their SERPs as the engines detect the 301 redirects to update the index. */

Example:
http://www.vbseo.com/sitemap/f-5.html will be 301 redirected to http://www.vbseo.com/sitemap/f-5.html

(C) vBSEO now functions with PHP in safemode.

(D) vB "Merge Threads" feature now works with vBSEO static CRUs (content relevant URLs).

(E) vBSEO copyright notice was removed from the vB redirection pages.

(F) Upload of XML settings file in vBSEO control panel now includes a confirmation message. The OCD types no longer have to say "I can't be sure if that worked... I have to upload it again".

(G) HTML Entities are now removed from static CRUs. This shortens average URL lengths, removes unnecessary noise words, and increases in-URL keyword relevancy.

(H) vBSEO is now xHTML compliant.

I welcome your feedback and I await the next series of bug reports for RC4, especially now that we have several new testers joining the team. We haven't printed any vBSEO t-shirts yet, but the first tester to report an RC4 bug wins bragging rights (shipping & handling included). As always, please do not hesitate to contact any of us either via the forums or PM.

Download Location:

Testers go to: http://www.crawlability.com/vbseo/friends/ and enter your login details.

Install Instructions:

(1) Backup your .XML settings file (through 'forums/vbseo_cp.php')
(2) Upload all the files in the '/upload' folder
(3) Restore your previous settings by uploading your backup .XML file

Discuss this Announcment Here

Juan

Discuss the announcement 'vBSEO 2.0 RC4 Released' in this thread.

great! but how can i download it?

Originally Posted by uyoruk

great! but how can i download it?

I just edited the announcement

Bravo Oleg !! There i go RC4

i followed the instructions above and when i tried to upload the xml backup file, it returns the following error

Fatal error: Cannot run code from this file in conjunction with previously run files encoded by Juan Muriente in config_vbseo.php on line 2

Should i uninstall the plugin also before attemping version upgrade ?

I can't seem to get it to accept my details now. :(

Not eligible for registration?

Originally Posted by kall

I can't seem to get it to accept my details now. :(

Not eligible for registration?

Hey Kall,

PM sent with your login info

Originally Posted by Neutral Singh

i followed the instructions above and when i tried to upload the xml backup file, it returns the following error



Should i uninstall the plugin also before attemping version upgrade ?

Simply overwrite all the files (remember to use BINARY mode) and then, upload the XML file.

Let me know how it goes,
Juan

Hi Juan,

I am presetnly using vB3.5.0 Beta 4. I uploaded all files in Binary mode but when i try to even go to vb control panel, the above quoted message shows up and basically, i can not navigate at all on the website.

But when i revert back to RC2 version and the whole system works fine as normal.

same here it looks like there is a problem with the version info

Many thanks dude.

I also can't seem to get it to accept my details now.

Not eligible for registration?

Originally Posted by Bandwurm

Not eligible for registration?

me to :(

I am sorry - I can´t install RC4 final due to the mentioned fatal error. Does
anyone have a solution for this error ?